RowFree Program at Austin Rowing Club offers free beginner rowing lessons to staff and volunteers of nonprofit organizations, teachers, government employees. & seniors.   Instruction in rowing a racing shell, on Lady Bird Lake, by experienced members of Austin Rowing Club (Austin's only nonprofit rowing club). Lessons can be scheduled on weekday mornings, or if you have a group of three or more we can schedule an event on a Friday evening, or Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Email RowFree@austinrow …

The Firepit Minyan meets in South Austin backyards to experience Judaism. Though our beliefs range from agnostic to true believer, we embrace the Jewish spirit of humor, arguing with God and the pursuit of menschiness. To paraphrase Mordecai Kaplan: tradition has a vote here, but not a veto. You are invited to join our homey, messy, spiritual, funky, musical, exuberant, all-ages community. We are happy to help you find local Jewish events and resources, but do not announce or host them here; ple …

Overview Most of the time, WriteByNight is hard at work providing customized writers' services to novices and professionals alike. But on select days and times, we draw the shades, turn off our ringers and open our doors to writers on the prowl for a quiet, comfy haven where they can write, read, collaborate or just kick back and dream. We’ve got a library, writing prompts, coffee and free Wi-Fi. What more could a writer ask for? Objective Write Here allows you to carve out much-needed writing …

Professional Writers of Austin (PWA) is a free, members-only networking group for professional and aspiring writers. Our Mission Develop a supportive and informative community for Austin’s writers, editors, and interactive content creators. Goals Provide opportunities for Austin’s discrete journalistic, literary, and new media content-creating community to meet, share resources and job tips, improve career skills, and form lifelong bonds with like-minded people. Members We represent individuals …

What is Austin Entrepreneurs? The Austin Entrepreneurs Meetup Group exists to motivate and enhance successful business inititatives and ventures in Austin Texas. We are a community of entrepreneurs willing to share our stories. Our primary goal is to keep the local entrepreneur informed to their competitive advantage. What Austin Entrepreneurs is NOT: Our primary objective is not to create a marketplace for entrepereneurs to sell each other products or services but to provide a each other with u …

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. Cloud Security Alliance, Austin Chapter meetings are organized at www.austincloud.org. …

The best online marketers in Austin got together and decided they should educate more people about how to effectively market their product, services and ideas. They realized they were free on the 5th Wednesday of the month...are you? Video:  5th Wednesday Marketing Meetup from Mosaic Media Films on Vimeo.

Mishpacha is the Hebrew word for "family," which reflects the essence of our community.  Gay Jews Austin is truly that, a coming-together of Jewish GLBTs bound by the human ties that connect us;  our unique sexual and gender identities; and our links to the Jewish past. We are Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist, Orthodox, secular and liberal.  And we come from all types of backgrounds. Our mishpacha is open to all GLBT Jews, spouses, partners, significant others and friends, whether Jewi …

Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath we swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God. Our Oath is to the Constitution Our motto is "Not on our watch!" Please support our efforts by becoming an official member of Oath Keepers. Click …

We're a group of over 150 fans of Rush (connected through this Meetup group, as well as Facebook and other services) who live in/visit central Texas (Austin, San Antonio, and nearby). We share information and get together for social events, especially for a pre-show party when our favorite band comes to central Texas and when Rush Fans In Texas has a gathering in central Texas. We also support Signals, a Rush tribute band based in Austin.

We are interested in facilitating and meeting with people to discuss the trans-media/convergence "mashup" marketplace which we define as the global $500 billion+ global marketplace for entertainment-focused products, services & offerings in a number of areas: social everything, gaming & immersive worlds, mobility & communications, digital advertising & interactive, net video/tv, digital film, digital music and animation & cgi. This includes "mashups" involving content/context, applications, serv …

The group started to create a networking hub for pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, life sciences professionals and service providers to these organizations in the Austin, TX area and surrounding cities. The purpose of the group is to connect life science professionals through face to face networking and discuss the latest industry trends, challenges and opportunities. Topics of discussion will include business strategy, design, development, manufacturing, quality and regulatory, IP, fundi …

The Communal Healing Project is a collective of healing arts practitioners in Austin, Texas. We seek to heighten the awareness in our community of the various forms and techniques used for healing and wellness. By creating sacred spaces, we intend to bring healing practices to the masses under one shared roof. By collaborating and communing with our fellow practitioners, we encourage heart centered awareness and healing for, with, and by each other. As we heal ourselves, we heal each other and t …

After feedback from members of the group we have changed this group to be specifically for general iACT events. For specific Red Bench Events, please sign up for the new group.

Social Media and Web Innovators come together with Social Change Makers and Nonprofits to mix, swap stories and ideas, and build new relationships.

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

We are warriors, Bards, and Mystics of all heritages and traditions that come together to not only study and continue on the road of perfection for our craft, but to apply it to our everyday dealings. This group is about action. It is about reclaiming the Earth from those that have done Her harm for far to long, and the reestablishing our proper place in our ecosystem. We accomplish this by creating sustainable communities, grow our own food, and raise and hunt for our meat. We keep the sacred i …

This is a group that is interested in thriving in the these times of massive change. We want to not simply survive but DRIVE positive changes for ourselves, our community and the World!

This is a group for anyone in or outside of the Rainey Street district; The group is primarily intended to connect mainly Rainey Street (Davis Street / Red River) residents for week day oe weekend happy hours, shows on Rainey Street, then, combining with volunteering on the weekends. All are welcome. Looking forward to meeting some of my "neighbors". Cheers.

This is a group for anyone interested in Platform as a Service, Cloud Computing, Python, Ruby, PHP, EC2, Heroku, etc. All skills levels are welcome. I started this group to meet other open source enthusiasts using cloud computing for their software development needs. Looking forward to exploring this technology with everybody.

Are you tired of the Republican Party being branded as the party of racism in a cheap game of identity politics? Are you tired of politicians trying to define you as nothing more than your race instead of your thoughts, words, and actions? Would you like to express that indignation and discuss ways to change that over good beer? If so, this is the group for you. Our intent is to organize and sponsor community services, charity fundraisers, and political debates as avenues to establish a Republic …

Austin based crowd funding community for any inventors, innovators and supporters interested in utilizing crowd funding to fuel their ideas. Crowd funding is gaining traction worldwide with many countries making it available for funding products, projects and startups. The United States currently does not allow the general public to invest for equity until later this year. This meetup group is for inventors and innovators looking to perks, products or services in exchange for a monetary contribu …

This group was created to encourage awareness of and access to the Balcones Canyonland Preserve (BCP). Through the promotion of public educational opportunities, our members will be in the loop of special access hikes and lectures. The BCP is not one single tract of land but a system of preserves located in Travis County that exists as a multi-agency conservation effort operating under a regional 10(a) permit issued under the Endangered Species Act by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFW). In …

Calling all volunteers! This group is for anyone who wants to help Keep [South] Austin Beautiful... or any part of our great city! We will be hosting both volunteering projects as well as social events. If you have an idea for a project or would like to take lead as a Project Manager, please feel free to contact us!

ColorCancer is the first program of a local Austin, TX non-profit. Our focus is to bring awareness and outreach to all cancers. If you are looking for a great group in Austin, TX to meet other passionate business professionals in your area, the ColorCancer Network is the place for you. We have monthly social opportunities as well and various volunteer opportunities for you to get involved in the Austin cancer community. For more information, check out are events at facebook.com/colorcancer. You …

If you're interested in the future of long-term care, the Texas Culture Change Coalition (TxCCC) is dedicated to transforming the culture of long-term care provided to Texans, who are aging or have disabilities, by affirming the dignity and value of each individual and the caregivers who provide support for them. Involved in this effort are quarterly meetings and an annual Symposium with others who share your concerns...and others who have answers.

@austinapi http://austinapi.com Are you obsessed about APIs? Are you building an innovative new API for your company? Are you creating tools to help reshape the world through API usage? Do you create mashups for everything? Are you frustrated that no one understands what you do at your API-related job? Join us for beers, discussion, and some expert perspective.

This group is dedicated to helping raise awareness and support for those affected by ALL cancers. Join our group if you would like to help ColorCancer with our community initiatives. ColorCancer is the first program of the 501 (c)(3) non-profit, Affect Change, Inc. Affect Change, Inc. was launched in 2011 by a University of Texas student with the mission of encouraging community involvement through projects that aim to create positive social change. Our first program, ColorCancer accomplishes th …